Nov 11, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Machine Learning
A long-term fallout of the Covid crisis has been the rise of the contactless enterprise, in which customers, and likely employees, interact with systems to get what they need or request. This means a pronounced role for artificial intelligence and machine...
Nov 4, 2021 | Agriculture, Internet of Things
AT&T is using its 5G network to power a unique type of connected device designed specifically for dairy farmers. The hardware comes from smaXtec, which describes it as a small smart sensor that cows physically swallow. The sensor stays in the cow’s first stomach...
Nov 4, 2021 | Business, Featured, Industry 4.0
Augury, an industrial AI + IoT company—with customers such as Colgate, Hershey’s and Pepsi – has raised $180M in Series E funding. The round,led by Baker Hughes, launches the company to unicorn status and makes it an important bellwether for Industry 4.0...
Nov 4, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Testing
Waymo will begin testing in NYC, as shared by The Verge, to improve its coverage map of cities that have the driverless taxi service. To start out, the Waymo vehicles will not be autonomous. There will be two employees in the car, driving it around to map out the...
Nov 4, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence
Even people who aren’t fans of spiders can appreciate the intricate beauty of their webs. It’s even more fascinating when you consider the fact that the arachnids have tiny brains, yet somehow can build these geometrically precise creations. Now, scientists at Johns...
Nov 4, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Environment
The shift to electrified transport represents a societal and technological change on par with the industrial revolution, the New Deal and the more recent digitalization of everything. The effects will have lasting impacts on our economy and built environment. The...
Nov 4, 2021 | Agriculture, Robots
Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now an artificial material which mimics this ability could help to...
Nov 4, 2021 | Environment, Featured, Robots
Recycling on a large scale has always proved to be a challenging endeavor, especially as the production of plastic surged exponentially after the 1970s. But new technology made to streamline the process may help the U.S. make strides in eliminating the amount of...
Nov 4, 2021 | Electric Vehicles
In 1958, a now-iconic Rolls-Royce advert promised passengers that, despite its eight-cylinder aluminum engine, the loudest noise would be its electric clock. Six decades later, modern technology is making good on that promise. “Henry Royce built those...
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